Posthumous Tales of One, Great, Free Nation: Spanishness in post-Franco Spanish Film
Abstract
An important form of transmission of knowledge about the Spanish nation is based on the continuous telling of stories in which the nation features as a suprahistorical, perennial entity. Myths of national origin, golden-age legends, and epics of national heroes are some of these stories. This mode of access to knowledge assumes a suspension of disbelief for the audience, and precludes other attempts to comprehend the nation through scientific research. Subjective national identities constructed upon such suspension of disbelief have a tendency to reify, personify or even deify the nation. In the struggle between mythic and objective knowledge, the question of authenticity becomes a hotly contested arena. This paper attempts to address questions of mythical national representation in Spanish films of 1975-2000.Keywords
Identidad nacional, Conocimiento mítico, Conocimiento objetivo, National identity, Mythic knowledge, Objective knowledgePublished
31-10-2008
How to Cite
Martínez-Expósito, A. (2008). Posthumous Tales of One, Great, Free Nation: Spanishness in post-Franco Spanish Film. thenea igital. evista e ensamiento investigación ocial, (14), 143–158. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/athenead/v0n14.357
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